A Center for Economic and Policy Research report identified the intensification of United States sanctions against Cuba as the primary cause of a 148% increase in the island’s infant mortality rate. Marx del Rosario reports.
-
-
Two months have passed since the United States tightened its illegal 64-year economic blockade of Cuba, threatening countries supplying oil to the island nation. Green Left’s Ben Radford spoke to the Cuban Ambassador to Australia, Gilma Moreira Lino, about how Cubans are responding and the importance of international solidarity.
-
Political economist and author Helen Yaffe spoke to Green Left’s Alex Bainbridge about how the Cuban people are responding to the United States government ramping up its imperialist aggression.
-
“Cuba is in desperate need of our solidarity and it’s time for us to return it to Cuba, who has been offering solidarity with countries all around the world since the revolution started”, Lia Weitzel told Peter Boyle.
-
Chants of “Cuba si! Yankee no!” and “Unblock Cuba!” rang out across Sydney Town Hall Square on an international day of action called to oppose the United States’ imperialist threats. Jim McIlroy reports.